Screening Asian Americans

Name: Screening Asian Americans
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ISBN: 9780813530253

ISBN-10: 0813530253

ISBN-13: 9780813530253

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter X. Feng, Sabine Haenni, Eugene Franklin Wong, Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Stephen Gong

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This essay collection explores Asian-American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Asian American Bodies


Filming "Chinatown": Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations



The Early Years: Asians in the American Films Prior to World War II (excerpt, with a new introduction)



The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection



Histories of Asian American Cinema


A History in Progress: Asian American Media Arts Centers, 1970-1990



Identity and Difference in "Filipino/a American" Media Arts



A Peculiar Sensation: A Personal Genealogy of Korean American Women's Cinema



Asian American Film and Video in Context


Historical Consciousness and the Viewer: Who Killed Vincent Chin?



The Politics of Video Memory: Electronic Erasures and Inscriptions



Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing



Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala



Surname Viet Given Name Nam: Spreading Rumors and Ex/Changing Histories



Good Clean Fung



"From the multitude of narratives ... For another telling for another recitation": Constructing and Re-constructing Dictee and Memory/all echo



Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet



On Fire



Contributors


Index